(Subscription required) Consumers asked the California Supreme Court to review a lower court’s revival of a state regulation that taxes customers on the undiscounted price of cell phones bundled with service contracts.

In 2020, a unanimous Second District panel comprising Justices John Shepherd Wiley Jr., Tricia Bigelow and Elizabeth Grimes rejected the plaintiffs’ claims that the city’s at-large elections illegally diminished Latino voting power. Three years later, the California Supreme Court reversed the Second District, finding that the court of appeal had misinterpreted the state’s voting rights law.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld a decision in 2022 by the Environmental Protection Agency, under President Joe Biden, to restore California’s pollution-setting authority for cars and trucks that had been repealed by the EPA in 2019 under President Donald Trump.

(Subscription required) Two law firms that helped settle a federal wiretapping class action against Google LLC last week took their battle to state court on Monday; filing 17 mass tort lawsuits in Santa Clara County Superior Court accusing the tech giant of illegally tracking Google Chrome users while they browsed the internet in "Incognito" mode.